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17" Firewire woes
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Jul 20, 2003, 04:44 PM
 
I need to connect to my desktop PC but my laptop comes up as unidentified. How can I mound my laptop as a drive on my PC?
     
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Jul 20, 2003, 06:32 PM
 
Not with Firewire. Get yourself an Ethernet crossover cable, initiate Windows File Sharing on your Mac in the Sharing icon of System Preferences, and connect to the Mac from Windows (the address to use for the PC is given to you in the Sharing window of System Pref) and that should do the trick. Unless you buy third party software for your PC, you won't be able to mount the Mac drive in Windows using Firewire. The Mac's HD is HFS+ formatted, the PC is likely NTFS or FAT32.

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Jul 20, 2003, 07:41 PM
 
It asks me to get to the files localy when I try to connect to the PC. When I got from the PC the the laptop is asks me for a password that I never designated.
     
   
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